Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-06-23
Women Flogged BY the Beers.

The editor of the Eastern Province
Herald writes from Port Elizabeth call
ing attention to Boer brutality in the
Transvaal. The accuracy of the ac
| count is vouched for:
My name is Sara. | am about "a
years of age. On Monday last | was
discharged from the Pretoria jail, after
being imprisoned for two months. |
was sent to prison because was said to
have been impudent to white woman.
[ was not impudent, but, Mrs. ID.
said that / had enticed the girl Rachel
to run away. The feldcornet came
with a black constable and said:
''Catch the impudent woman and
take her to prison." Maraba said that
| should be taken to the landdrost.
First l was taken to the landdrost.
| The landdrost said that / must pay q
| fine of f3 OF 90 to the tronk for two
months and receive twenty-five lashes.
Mrs. d. said that had come to entice
the girl away, and that Charlotte was
the impudent one. Charlotte was fined
FL los, which was paid. Rachel was
| fined FL 10s., which was paid by S.
Coetzee, and she had to work it out. |
was fined IS, but as could not pay l
was sent to trOnk and ordered to get
| twenty-five lashes. [ was locked up
for three weeks, and then the land
drost came to the tronk and ordered
me to receive the twenty-five lashes
while he stood by. was tied up by my
wrists and legs and was fogged until
| tainted. The blood came out my back
where / was fogged. / had all my
clothes taken off with the exception of
my chemise, which was held around
my loins. 1t was after breakfast that
/ was fogged. When the landdrost
came was washing his clothes. When
| recovered from my faint found my
the day that I was fogged they senf
for doctor. He pulled open my
mouth and put some stuff to my nose.
/ think he came in the middle of the
night. The next day was told to go
and finish the washing of the landdrost's
clothes. The landdrost's maid,
Mavisa, who was in the tronk, told
the landdrost that [ would not wash
the clothes. did not say so, but /
could not as my back was too sore.
Mavira had been twice logged by order
of the landdrost. The first time she
had fifteen lashes, which were inflicted
in the mems yard. She was stripped,
her chemise being tied about her as
mine was. She was then logged on
| her shoulders. She was put in the
tronk for two days on that occasion.
| When she got out she went to the
landdrost's house, and as she refused
to work in consequence of her back
being sore she was sent back for four
days and to receive a fogging of
too raw to be fiogged again in the
same place | was told to roll up her
chemise so that she could be fogged
lower down. That flogging took place
in the womens yard. Mr.. Van Reenen
was present, and the women were
logged by "Jack." Van Reenen
would not let me be beaten at first
because, he said, [ was too weak.
About three weeks after / was put in
. the tronk the landdrost came up in
order to see that his sentence on me was
carried out, and | was tied up and
logged in his presence, the landdrost
standing in front of me. When the
landdrost was told that [ would not
finish the washing of his clothes he
ordered me to be put in the stocks,
and l was kept in the stocks for two
days and two nights, and kept without
food the whole time. | know of six
women being fogged while | was
in the tronk. All were fogged
with the cat-o'-nine tails, and all were
beaten by Jack" who does all the
fogging in the jail,